Changing specific text's color using NSMutable

Question

The issue I am having is that I want to be able to change the textColor of certain text in a TextView. I am using a concatenated string, and just want the strings I am appending into the TextView's text. It appears that what I want to use is NSMutableAttributedString, but I am not finding any resources of how to use this in Swift. What I have so far is something like this:

let string = "A \(stringOne) with \(stringTwo)"
var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string)
textView.attributedText = attributedString

From here I know I need to find the range of words that need to have their textColor changed and then add them to the attributed string. What I need to know is how to find the correct strings from the attributedString, and then change their textColor.

Since I have too low of a rating I can't answer my own question, but here is the answer I found

I found my own answer by translating from translating some code from

Change attributes of substrings in a NSAttributedString

Here is the example of implementation in Swift:

let string = "A \(stringOne) and \(stringTwo)"
var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string:string)

let stringOneRegex = NSRegularExpression(pattern: nameString, options: nil, error: nil)
let stringOneMatches = stringOneRegex.matchesInString(longString, options: nil, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))
for stringOneMatch in stringOneMatches {
    let wordRange = stringOneMatch.rangeAtIndex(0)
    attributedString.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.nameColor(), range: wordRange)
}

textView.attributedText = attributedString

Since I am wanting to change the textColor of multiple Strings I will make a helper function to handle this, but this works for changing the textColor.

Answer 1

Swift 2.2

var myMutableString = NSMutableAttributedString()

myMutableString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "1234567890", attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: kDefaultFontName, size: 14.0)!])

myMutableString.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor(red: 0.0/255.0, green: 125.0/255.0, blue: 179.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0), range: NSRange(location:0,length:5))

self.lblPhone.attributedText = myMutableString

Answer 2

Super easy way to do this.

let text = "This is a colorful attributed string"
let attributedText = 
NSMutableAttributedString.getAttributedString(fromString: text)
attributedText.apply(color: .red, subString: "This")
//Apply yellow color on range
attributedText.apply(color: .yellow, onRange: NSMakeRange(5, 4))

For more detail click here: https://github.com/iOSTechHub/AttributedString

Answer 3

For everyone who are looking for "Applying specific color to multiple words in text", we can do it using NSRegularExpression

 func highlight(matchingText: String, in text: String) {
    let attributedString  = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
    if let regularExpression = try? NSRegularExpression(pattern: "\(matchingText)", options: .caseInsensitive) {
        let matchedResults = regularExpression.matches(in: text, options: [], range: NSRange(location: 0, length: attributedString.length))
        for matched in matchedResults {
             attributedString.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.backgroundColor : UIColor.yellow], range: matched.range)

        }
        yourLabel.attributedText = attributedString
    }
}

Reference link : https://gist.github.com/aquajach/4d9398b95a748fd37e88

Answer 4

Swift 4.1

I have changed from this In Swift 3

let str = "Welcome "
let welcomeAttribute = [ NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blue()]
let welcomeAttrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: str, attributes: welcomeAttribute)

And this in Swift 4.0

let str = "Welcome "
let welcomeAttribute = [ NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue()]
let welcomeAttrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: str, attributes: welcomeAttribute)

to Swift 4.1

let str = "Welcome "
let welcomeAttribute = [ NSAttributedStringKey(rawValue: NSForegroundColorAttributeName): UIColor.blue()]
let welcomeAttrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: str, attributes: welcomeAttribute)

Works fine

Answer 5

SWIFT 4.0

 let txtfield1 :UITextField!

    let main_string = "Hello World"
    let string_to_color = "World"

    let range = (main_string as NSString).range(of: string_to_color)

    let attribute = NSMutableAttributedString.init(string: main_string)
    attribute.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor, value: UIColor.red , range: range)


    txtfield1 = UITextField.init(frame:CGRect(x:10 , y:20 ,width:100 , height:100))
    txtfield1.attributedText = attribute

Answer 6

swift 4.2

    let textString = "Hello world"
    let range = (textString as NSString).range(of: "world")
    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: textString)

    attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor, value: UIColor.red, range: range)
    self.textUIlable.attributedText = attributedString